Columbia River Gorge & Mt. Hood

We left Portland early in the morning and took the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Byway direction east. The gorge is really impressive and on the Oregon side are a lot of waterfalls. We swiched between Washington State and Oregon on toll bridges ($1 for crossing). It was a very windy day and countless sailboarders and kiteboarders were doing their hobby on the Columbia river. We stopped to watch them and there we saw Mount Hood for the first time. Cool Mountain! The road to Timberline Lodge brought us up the mountain. Even the skiing area was open. So we – as we Austrians do – had a delicious soup at the ski hut (the lodge).